Barcelona is waiting in Kiev for a final for all intents and purposes.
Although if she defeats Dynamo, she still will not get the ticket to the quarterfinals, but she will keep the option to fight for second place against Benfica.
If not, keep moving closer to the professional and economic abyss.
The fact that Barça are playing the most important and decisive game of their season as early as November is a result of the catastrophic season opener, which began in the summer with the departure of Leo Messi and Antoine Griezmann and continued with many losses and injuries, the dismissal of Ronald Koeman and the last stumble in the league against Alabs. Is on the bench.
Nico Gonzalez holds his head.
Critical game in the Champions League, Photo: IPI
Interim coach Sergei Barjuan received good news for the Catalans yesterday, with Patti, De Jong, Araujo and Dembele joining the squad against Dynamo even though they are not one hundred percent qualified.
Aguero, Pique and Sergi Roberto are still injured.
Whoever is found, but it really does not look like that even when he plays - it is Coutinho, who along with Dembele is the most expensive and most failed acquisition in the last decades of Barcelona.
"I told him I was also booed at Camp Nou. The only way to be strong is to be himself, that's what I asked of him. We hope to meet Liverpool's Coutinho again," said the coach, who knows third place is a historic failure.
For Dynamo, third place will be a huge success.
The Ukrainian team is in first place in its league, after the victory against the last in the table and even though coach Mircea Lucescu is very angry with his players.
Dynamo knows that a victory will give them hope, but they will have to improve a lot in relation to the weak performance at Camp Nou.
So weak, that Barça defeated it, how strange it is to say so.
Flying to fetch Xavi
Barcelona executives are expected to fly from Kiev to Qatar to close the deal with al-Sadr.
Xavi's team does not want and of course does not need money, but they demand that the Catalans give them respect, and even play a friendly match against them so that they agree to release the coach.
But with all due respect to the experience in Qatar, if Barça president Joan Laporta chose Xavi as savior, it is because he is a symbol and flag of the typical style of Barcelona.
Xavi.
Will sign soon, but he has a lot of work to do, Photo: AFP
Meanwhile, Laporta received a severe blow yesterday when the Sport newspaper published an interview with Leo Messi, who replied to the president who said he thought he would play for free at Barça: "Those words are out of place, it hit me. I did everything to stay, no one asked me to play for free. They asked me to cut my salary in half and I did it without a problem, "said Messi, who admitted that he wants to return to Barcelona one day as a professional manager and not as a player, unfortunately for the Catalans.
There is no doubt that tonight he could have helped and covered up the group's problems.
